Machinery for conveying earth, &amp;c.



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UNITED sTATEs PATENT OEEIOE.

SAMUEL LLOYD, OR BIRMINGHAM, AND ALFRED ROGER GRossMITE, OF GORBY, NEAR KETTERING, ENGLAND.

MACHINERY FOR CONVEYING EARTH, 81.0.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 7, 1907.

Application filed July 9,1906. Serial No. 325,304.

To all wir/0111, 'llt may concern.-

Be it known that we, SAMUEL LLOYD, chairman of Lloyds ironstone Company, Limited, residing at Princes Chambers, Corporation street, Birmingham, England, and ALFRED ROGER GROssMI'rH, works manager of Lloyds IronstoneCompany, Limited, residing at Corby, near Kettering, England, subjects of the King of Great Britain, have invented certain new and useful improve ments in machinery for conveying earth and like material from any point at which it may have been excavated and depositing it at a distance therefrom, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates more especially to machinery for conveying away earth or the like from above any layers of ironstone clay or other mineral which it may be overlying and for depositing the earth or the like on to ground from which the layer of ironstone clay or other mineral has already been re-` moved. For this purpose we construct the machine of a large carriage or truck having mounted across it an inclined or it mightbe a horizontal beam which at one end has a pivot projecting upward at right angles from it, around which a wheel of large diameter having an annular platform around its circumference, can be made to turn continuously. At the other end of the beam is mounted a chute or hopper on to which the material to be conveyed away and distributed can be thrown and from thence fed on to the platform of the large wheel to be carried round to the point at which it is to be deposited and can there be removed from the platform by an inclined scraper or plow which is held stationary. Provision is made for readily shifting the position of this inclined scraper to any desired position around the circumference of the platform so that the upper surface of the mound formed by the deposited material may when brought to the required height be brought level or approximately so.

The chute or hopper may be formed with a revolving disk at the bottom and a fixed inclined scraper or plow be used for causing the earth or material resting on the disk to be discharged from it on to the platform at one point of its circumference as the material is carried round by the disk.

ln order that this invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried into practice, we have appended hereunto two sheets of drawings upon which we have illustrated the nature of our said improvements.

Figure 1 is an elevation of the apparatus, and Fig. 2 a plan.

1 is a carriage or truck which from time to time can be shifted along rails 2 laid to receive it, it may be on ground from above which ironstone or other mineral has been previously removed.

3 is an inclined beam mounted across the truck, provision may if desired be made for varying the inclination of the beam.

4 is a pivot standing up from the upper end of the beam at right angles to it. 5 is a large wheel capable of being turned around this pivot.v

6 is an annular platform extending from the circumference of the wheel.

7 is a hopper carried by the lower end of the beam 3.

8 is a revolving disk forming the bottom of the hopper. 9 a conical projection rising up from the center of the disk.

The disk S at one part of its circumference extends above a portion of the annular platform as seen in Fig. 1. A portion of the side of the hopper is cut away to form an opening 10 as seen in Fig. 2 and an inclined scraper 11 is fixed at one side of the opening against which the material on the disk is brought as the disk revolves and is deflected through the opening and on to the platform. In this way material thrown into the hopper can be delivered gradually onto the platform. Or an ordinary hopper with an adjustable aperture at the bottom might be employed for effecting the same result.

12 is the plow or scraper for discharging material from the platform, it may be secured to arms 13 extending from a ring 14 capable of being turned around the pivot 4 and may be held in any desired position around the circumference of the wheel by a wire rope or chain 15.

A continuous revolving motion may be given to the wheel by an endless rope 16 extending around the Wheel, over pulleys 17 and around a pulley 18 on a shaft 19 which can lbe driven by an engine mounted on the carriage.

The disk 8 can also be driven continuously by an endless rope 20 passing around a pulley 21 on the same shaft 19.

22 is an excavating machine of any ordi- IOO nary construction by which earth or material can be excavated and delivered into the hopper 7. l

23 is a line of rails on Which a train of trucks can be moved by an ordinary locomotive engine 24.

By the trucks the iron stone or other mineral can be carried away.

What We claim is I* 1 The combination of a truck, a beam arranged across the truck and supported thereby, a pivot standing up from one end of the beam, a circular platform turning around this pivot, ahopper at the opposite ends of the beam from which earth or material may be delivered on to the platform and a staf` tionary scraper or ploW for discharging the earth or material from the platform.

2. The combination of a truck, a beam arranged cross-Wise of the truck and pivoted thereto, a circular platform pivoted to one end of the beam, a hopper supported at the opposite end of the beam from which earth or other material may be delivered on to the platform and an adjustable scraper or plow for discharging the material from the platform. v

SAlVIUEL LLOYD.

ALFRED ROGER GROSSMITH.

Lloyd:

J. L. ANDERsoN, WILLIAM C. BATTEN.

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